Hunter coal mines and coal-fired power generators should pay for health impacts, say doctors

By Joanne McCarthy
January 23 2017 - 6:00pm
Gasping: Dust creation at an Upper Hunter open cut mine. Doctors have backed calls for coal mining to be included in a scheme where polluters pay for the consequences of the industry.
Gasping: Dust creation at an Upper Hunter open cut mine. Doctors have backed calls for coal mining to be included in a scheme where polluters pay for the consequences of the industry.

THE NSW Government must put a much greater cost on air pollution to force the heaviest polluters – coal mining and coal-fired power generators – to “clean up their act”, says Doctors for the Environment.

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